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I keep hearing about the Do not track option in I.E.. What is this . Is this going to be a security problem or is suppose to be a security feature.

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Hallo Charles,

The Do Not Track feature in internet explorer is a preference that enables users to set the web browsers in a manner that enabled them to inform websites that they do not want to be tracked, a feature that is very crucial as well as  Mozilla Firefox .

You will not find a single definition of what it means to be "tracked," today, therefore expressing a preference will not be a guarantee to the users that they can successfully block all web sites the kind of method of tracking protection that is very effective for them.

Regards,

Carl

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It is a new security feature that Microsoft announced to support in its Internet Explorer 9 web browser in december 2010
This feature was originally proposed in 2009 by researchers Christopher Soghoian , Sid Stamm , and Dan Kaminsky and now
It is currently being standardized by the W3C
It is currently supported by Mozila's Firefox , Apple's Safari and Opera unfortunately , It is not currently supported by Google Chrome , but will be incorporated into it by the end of 2012
It is an HTTP header field that would request a web application to disable their tracking relics of a user and The default behavior is to not send the header to that web application, until the users chooses to enable this setting via their browsers
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